Preservation Demo Prep Begins For Gothic Revival Church In West Philly Christ Memorial Reformed Episcopal Church, a mountainous 131-year-old Gothic Revival landmark in West Philly, prepares for the end. Michael Bixler has the ...
Preservation Praise And Protest At Historical Commission Meeting Applause and anger filled the room at the monthly Historical Commission meeting on Friday. GroJLart has the ...
Architecture Finding John Haviland A quick check to confirm the final resting place of famed Philadelphia architect John Haviland pulls one historical researcher deep down the rabbit hole. Join Nicholas Pappas on an odyssey of obsession, intrigue, and ...
Preservation Germantown Neighbors Wary But Hopeful Over Plans For Abandoned St. Francis Of Assisi St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Germantown has suffered theft, fire and blight since it closed in the summer of 2012, transforming a 113-year-old neighborhood anchor into a pressure point of crime and neglect. ...
Architecture Marked Potential: St. Andrew’s Collegiate Chapel With this month's Marked Potential Shila Griffith gives us a rock climbing gym with a heavenly view inside the divine sanctuary of St. Andrew's Collegiate ...
History Salvation For A Neighborhood Icon In Manayunk How a community rallied around restoring St. John the ...
Preservation St. Laurentius Church Blessed With Historic Designation The future of Fishtown's St. Laurentius Church has been legally protected for now after the Historical Commission voted today in favor of placing the Polish Catholic landmark on the Philadelphia Register of Historic ...
Preservation Taking Inventory With The Philadelphia Church Project The fabric of Philadelphia's sacred architecture is slowly disintegrating as religious neighborhood landmarks give way to new construction. The Philadelphia Church Project, a growing online record of the city's historic sanctuaries, has been steadily amassing ...
